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@TheCapeGreek yeah your login should work on other uni's as well, you might have to change the certificate and change some security settings. It's great in theory
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@epse I'm not a uni student so don't have that access. I do work at a company with the goal of providing similar services to the South African colleges though.
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@epse
In theory :)
@TheCapeGreek
I had no idea it reached SA, thought it was a European thing only.
Full disclosure, I maintain a tiny part of it. And yes configuration can be quirky. But don't blame mschapv2, blame network driver manufacturers.
Some hardware is close to impossible to make work right.
Same steps in the same os on a different machine work as expected.
Worse case os now is windows 10 home/starter. Usually takes 2,3 tries with different methods until it sticks. -
@epse
Forgot to mention, it looks to me you're suffering from congestion at the access point, or some traffic shaping upstream at your uni.
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@nbamaral Yep. Not sure who's in charge of it around here though since most education support institutions are government supported/funded rather than owned it seems.
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@epse
Yes, 5 is a little too many, your driver may be jumping around between them. Try with a USB pen, then look at what parameters you can feed the linux driver or wpa-suplicant to make it more stable. -
@Wack yeah that. It gives you access to services that would otherwise be only available when connected to eduroam
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@epse not sure how it is, where yoj're but in Switzerland there are a lot of wifi hotspots (like the ones you'd have to pay in public places), but if you use the university vpn, you basically bypass the authentification, as the university has some kind of agreement with that provider. Not sure how the system with eduroam works but maybee something similar, or is your issue with getting a stable connection to the wifi in the first place?
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@Jappe if now I'd find a way to fix it... Switching dcpcd for dhclient helps a little and generally forcefully renewing my dhcp lease connects me again...
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@Wack yeah I just straight up can't really connect
I was in school and I got bored. I opened two command prompts and did what any scammer would do.
I went to t...
Will these fucktards just FUCKING FIX EDUROAM! alright it's a WiFi network that works across the globe and there's challenges with that BUT DON'T MAKE ME HAVE TO MANUALLY RECONNECT EVERY random amount of time!!! I'll shove that fucking MSCHAPv2 down you fucking throats with that sweet sweets PEAP sauce bloody arseholes.
What do you fucking mean it works fine? NO IT BLOODY DOESN'T! Get your shit together and at least handle DHCP leases correctly and make them not expire every fucking minute!!
Also, how the flipping fuck does connecting to the eduroam VPN from within fucking eduroam make it more stable? Only ever so slightly though. Incompetent pieces of dick sucking craptards don't make me have to bring out the ethernet jack EVERY FUCKING TIME at school for christ's sake.
No, it doesn't make it my problem because I'm running Linux. Look on the Internet. The forums are fucking filled with people having issues and your docs are from 5 years ago so please kindly FUCK Off!!!
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